Originally Posted by
Svifnymr
You keep harping on this, but you're just making points with yourself. There are conflicting reports of how peaceful the protest/riot was, cops say objects were thrown, folks deny things were thrown, there is no proof either way. Cops gave an order to disperse and then followed with non-lethal force. No government tyranny, no wide spread arrests even, an unpeaceful assembly was dispersed.
You are a child, throwing a tantrum because you didn't get your way and calling it tyranny. If you want to advocate lethal force against such a thing, go for it, but it's been discussed before and your attempt to cherry pick and misrepresent doesn't prove anything or lead anywhere. Yet you just keep going with it, thinking you're doing anything to prove a point?
The difference between standing in protest and intimidation is an odd one at time. I don't like the open carry protest stuff, nor the going to peoples houses (or non-government location) for the protest, but since it's their right it doesn't matter what I like or don't. They are not harming anyone, and are certainly a good degree less than the protesters going down random streets targeting lights and noise at random sleeping people at 3am.
DC has rather strict gun laws, so it would be inadvisable to violate laws in an attempt to riot. There are many answers other than "yes". If these people are anti-gun, then I'd say they should definitely not bring firearms to a protest since they maintain they don't need them. Likewise since they believe the police are not needed, they should do a better job of policing themselves of those that are inciting violence, assaulting people and destroying property.
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I thought violence was the voice of the unheard?
They didn't try to kidnap, they discussed and possibly planned. And it was a group of 6 people, with 1 plant and multiple paid informants, that were somewhere in a protest of what, thousands? The folks should be punished, sure, but let's not pretend this was a grand conspiracy rather than what it was. All signs point to the FBI goading the group along so they could try to involve that other group and it leading no where after months of surveillance so charges got filed on what they could get.
Just looking for coverage and internet fame it seems to me, they didn't cause any damage as far as I know. Just pointless really, but like a lot in life folks don't understand the difference between negative attention and useful attention.